interdevourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

interdevour (三人称単数 現在形 interdevours, 現在分詞 interdevouring, 過去形および過去分詞形 interdevoured)

1. (まれに) Of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     Epicurus said of the lawes that the worst were so necessary unto us, that without them men would enterdevour one another.

   • 1987, Richard Preston, First Light:

     His prime suspect for cannibalism was a nightmarish object — a pack of nine galaxies in a feeding frenzy, interdevouring one another.